New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-23

Of the rock forming ito boundaries to 40 extent IN
quantity equal to beyond the amount that could be
garnered from this additional watershed. so by
building this dam at such enormous and ut present
unknown expense We gain nothing in storage capa-
city Il it should give wayM vould caTse the loss OF
many lives and DO vast damage; 1t will imperil ihe
public health by compelling the city to depend on
ais one staRnaut pond for its supply; IL will de-
.troy the gs:sbouses keeper. buildings a?d Other
structures and property OF The city the vicinity OF
the CrotOo Dam. and now IN use in connection with
the preseut squeduct; il will submerge the present
CFoton Dam and aqueduct, and 1t will entail large
md unknown expense on the city for building and
psrpetualy maintaining nearly forty milss Oh road
and bridges whch will lie destroyed by the big
reservoir Some OF these bridges viii he great struc
1t will be poor reeompense tor all this TO take
visitors to to sec the biggest dam the Wond
| ever saw"
While no plans A. to the roads and bridges to be
buit by the city and forever maintained for the bene
fit CT tho people of Westcheser County have been ex
engineers office giving their proposed location Of the
roads and bridges to take the places OF those sub
merged From this 1t appears that the CITY WI; haze
r0sds principally the hillsdcs. to take the places
OF those ON the valleys 1t will have to build
twenty bridges OF total length OF about three mills:
Croton Dam and the Quaker Bridge Dam. There Il q
bridge there now, however and IL 10 probable that
the people of Westchester will insist its being re-
placed, and the city will have to do IT, bridge at
this point would be about mile long resting on piers
TN wFer 100 feet deep In sddiion to these the city
will have to build two largo railroad bridges, AID i've
small ones, and It viii have to build 5eral mes OF
railroad track to replace track that will be submerged
by the reservoir.
o. b. Potter who was member OF the commission
appointed by Mayor Edison to in, estigate this ques.
tion sad look upon this prosct a. one Of great peril
to the CITY, 1t 10 not question OF the loss OF few
thousand lives by the destruction of the dam which
will be sure to give way other dams have but is
menace t. the health Of the city. The Croton water
shed contsns populatioa Of over 20, 600 persons.
with $4,000 cattle. horses and stock, and some
hterhouses, tanneres and factories and five GEM
etees From ali these steadily and necessarily come
pollution the water and the necessity from time TO
time of emptying and cleaning the reservoirs This
with the Quaker Bridge Dam cannot be done II the
pollution OF the whole watershed 10 poured into this
great reservoir there will be In its bottom such
mass OF impure matter That the whole body would
be unfit drink. II get the water from separate
reservoirs it will In its flow to the aqueduot be aerated
and purified. In Boston, whore they have been som,
time dependent reservoir. the wAtr has not
been &c TO drink, and good water brought high price
The public authorities Their" told me, whatever else
we do not to put all water in one reservoir.
There is need to build this dam. IL Ia great
political and engineering iob and do not think when
the public begins to appreciate the facts that will
submit to it."